The good soldier's revenge (and Condi and Powell dynamics)

.....Rice's response to the seemingly endless stream of witnesses has been to order state department senior staff to stanch the flow of adverse stories.......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1471879,00.html

> The good soldier's revenge
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> In Colin Powell's battle to block Bush's nominee to the UN, far more is at stake than John Bolton's unsuitability
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> Sidney Blumenthal
> Thursday April 28, 2005
> The Guardian
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> From the redoubt of his retirement, former secretary of state Colin Powell is beginning to exact revenge. His sterling reputation was soiled, having lost most of the important battles within the administration during the first term. While he lamented that he had been "deceived" into presenting false information before the United Nations to justify the Iraq war, he acted as the good soldier to the end, giving every sign of desiring to fade away.
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> But now he has re-emerged to conduct a campaign to defeat President Bush's nomination of conservative hardliner and former undersecretary of state John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN.
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> In seeking to prevent the bullying and duplicitous ideologue from representing the US before the international organisation, Powell is engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his successor. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's first true test has not arrived from abroad. Caught by Powell's flanking movement, she is trapped in a crisis of credibility, which she herself is deepening.....

...and he does not get along that well with Condi Rice.

"The Powell Doctrine". Overwhelming force and all. When does she go to her husb* to beg him:cry: to make Powell stop it? Powell as Sisyphus is here to stay.

This is a view into some of the ugliest parts of this fascist government. We cannot endure this much longer. We simply can't...